What Happens to the Kid Who Places 400th
Selection systems are designed around the people they select. This one produces roughly a hundred thousand participants and thirty selections, and has no answer …
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Why Indian Startups Hire Six Vendors and Ship Nothing
The failure I keep seeing at events is not a funding failure or a talent failure. It is that the work was cut into pieces along the wrong lines, and the …
Read →At the Launch of Navachar Mantra
I was at IIT Delhi for the launch of Navachar Mantra, a national initiative by MSDE to support grassroots innovators from Tier-2, Tier-3 cities and rural India. …
Read →A Sunday at the Founders' Mixer
I spent a Sunday at the Founders’ Mixer hosted by AIC GGSIPU, CEDAT, and Bizowl. It was quieter than most events I attend no panels, no keynotes. Just …
Read →What the AI Vibe Sprint Actually Taught Me
I went to the AI Vibe Sprint Delhi NCR hosted by The Product Folks and Emergent expecting to see people build things quickly. What I left with was a question …
Read →Two Days at the ICC World Technology Convention
I spent two days at the Indian Chamber of Commerce’s World Technology Convention in Mumbai, sitting in panels on defense, cybersecurity, and education, …
Read →Your Research Is Not Safe, And You Probably Know It
A Delhi University professor recently lost six years of PhD research to a bag theft near North Campus. That story stayed with me, because I think most …
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